I deactivated my account a short while back after hearing about the beacon ad nauseum.

That'll teach them.

I kinda want to come back, please tell me I am not missing anything.

You may 'think' you have deleted your account, but if you sign up again it will reappear just the way you left it - you can never really leave!

Time for a little 'Hotel California'

And I will continue to not have a facebook account.

So there.

Facebook is what - a few years old? really only a year in mainstream awareness? yet it has this evil empire feel about it already. Took decades for that and Microsoft. Gives me a new found admiration for googles under-appreciated "don't be evil" ethos.

Why are there so many toy applications being created? Because there is demand for them. They are the most likely apps to make it big.

So if you don't like these toy apps, blame the users, not the developers.

Blame the crack user and not the crack dealer.

Toy applications are legal.

As if legality is the litmus test for morality or worth.

It isn't. Neither is "things I like" and "things I dislike".

I disagree. I still don't think any app that's been created really takes advantage of the Facebook platform. The toy applications are the easiest and most obvious ones to create. The real ones will come later, particularly when they start issuing fbFund grants...